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Hey do you mind posting a link? From what I see on the forum here there are 3 similar companies: the crowdfunding ninja, crowd pr ninja, and crowdfunding pr ninjas. I know ninja is a popular name for agencies as is anything that has crowdfunding related terms, but it would be helpful if we could see if they're all different or if some are the same and people just posted the wrong names. Thanks!

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The annoyance of an inbox full of spammy messages after launching a project. In fairness, do they work? Do you believe they claims? I’d prefer to put my own time into reaching out to the 1,000 or so Twitter, Facebook and Instagram ‘followers’ than freely hand some ‘entrepreneur’ a hefty chunk of hard earned cash for spammy, sporadic posts into the ether.

Anyway, rant over... Ryan West did contact me. Offered the same/similar package. Did however lodge $5 to my campaign (my first btw, thanks Ryan), and in doing so would give the unsuspecting crowdfunder ‘incentive’ to pick up on one of his claims, and engage his services.

I do trust people, but in reality if an unsolicited email comes through your mailbox and you haven’t reached out to someone for advice, why would you or I want to take that as a guaranteed way to get results?

If you were to leave a message here saying hello to everyone, and striking up a conversation and mentioning the link to your project you would probably generate genuine interest.

Ryan West is really Ryan Neral and he is scamming people out of their money. Thankfully he has left some breadcrumbs to follow.

• The company he currently uses is “The Crowdfunding Ninja”• He is emails from info@thecrowdfundingninja.com• His Company name on PayPal is “Social Media Promotion Group”• His registered email address on PayPal is: info@socialinfluencergroup.com• His name on fiverr is tryant, also associated with Tryant Computers.

On fiverr, his name (tryant) and picture match the picture and name of his computer company on his LinkedIn profile, which also matches the picture in the supposed “facebook posts” for campaigns he isn’t actually doing.